Useless Facts

Worlds biggest ice berg - or how do you call it - is leaving Antarctic.

It's about 160km long, 200 meters thick and weights more than family size pizza.



https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48920168

 

Not if you go by the average American family sized pizza.

 

Oh...

Do you mean pizza A-69 from Larsen C Pizza and Small Edible Continents Pizzeria?

 

Fact of the day here:

Kleenex Tissues were invented during WWI for protection against gas attacks.

Thank you, and good day.

 

I had no idea that was thing.

 

Sounds like a prompt.

 

The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is the only place in the world that has every currently living crocodilian species.

 

Early flamethrowers were not 'wind-compatible'.

 

Much like peeing, do it with the wind, not into it.

 

Call me paranoid, but no flamethrower is modern enough for me to trust it's "wind compatibility".

 

I've even seen photos of a, well, protester having some near-fatal difficulties when trying to serve his opposite numbers on the other side of the shield wall a refreshing Russian cocktail.

 

Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium.

[newscientist.com]

 

I've never tried to stream Belgium before, but perhaps that's why it was such a dirty word in the Hitchhiker book.

 

Chimpanzees spend an average of eight seconds having intercourse.

 

Something I, Tomb1302, absolutely needed to know on this day.

 

Whoo! I'm above average!

 

This may be useful to some of our members, but as it's old news I hope they are already aware.

Oreo cookies changed their recipe in 1998, removing the lard and thus becoming kosher.

 

The common earwig can survive several minutes inside a microwave oven.

Today at work three people heated up their dinner before the insect was noticed crawling around at the back. I got it on a spoon and took it outside, and it crawled away like nothing had happened.

 

Interesting, but also

 

So you never got to eat your earwigs?

 

Gross! :)

 

I have only just learnt this fact, despite being a UK citizen all my life, and living in Ireland for over 3 years now.
This is the flag of Saint Patrick...which explains why it features on the Union Jack.

 

No. My dinner just happened to have been a Holland’s pie (other pies are available) which said earwig had probably crapped all over.